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Sheehan Alam
Sheehan Alam

Reputation: 60919

How can I change the UINavigationBar of a UINavigationController?

I have a UINavigationController that I'm creating programatically:

 MessageTableViewController* homeStream = [[MessageTableViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"MessageTableViewController" bundle:nil];
          homeStream.fetchHomeStream = YES;
          homeStream.title = @"Home";
          UINavigationController* navBarController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:homeStream];
          navBarController.tabBarItem.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"hometab.png"];
          [homeStream release];

I have a custom UINavigationBar called STNavigationBar. How can I use STNavigationBar instead of the default UINavigationBar that is part of the UINavigationController?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 799

Answers (2)

Sheehan Alam
Sheehan Alam

Reputation: 60919

I ended up using the iOS5 UIKit appearance proxy:

[[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"header"] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];

No subclassing, or categories needed.

Upvotes: 3

Wolfert
Wolfert

Reputation: 974

Edit for future readers, the answer below does not work anymore on iOS 5.

You can't just set it to the existing instance, because UINavigationController has a readonly property for navigationBar. And I don't think subclassing a UINavigationController is what you want.

I recon the best way to do this is to create a category that extends a UINavigationBar, as discussed here.

Upvotes: 0

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